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Gauteng not at the peak of Covid-19 infections yet, says health MEC

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Since the beginning of July, Gauteng has moved from 45,944 to 112,714 cases by yesterday. However, the province is expected to peak between mid-August and early-September, where the number of cases are expected to jump to over 400,000. kgmadisa

This is according to provincial health MEC Bandile Masuku, who said that although Gauteng was recording high numbers of positive cases, the storm has not yet arrived. Gauteng, officially the epicentre of the virus, is recording at least 5,000 cases a day.

Since the beginning of July, Gauteng has moved from 45,944 to 112,714 cases by yesterday. However, the province is expected to peak between mid-August and early-September, where the number of cases are expected to jump to over 400,000. “We are about to reach the peak, we have not yet got there,” Masuku said in a webinar organised by the Daily Maverick.

Gauteng also has the highest number of active cases, having recorded only 45,743 recoveries. Masuku, however, said that many of the people who are positive exhibit “mild to no symptoms”, which resulted in low hospitalisation. “We were expecting the rise, we were expecting the surge. Gauteng was expected to have numbers,” Masuku said. “Twenty five percent of South Africa’s population is here [and] Gauteng also has a large number of densely populated areas.

 

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